12:00 Uhr

1h21min

Sons and Mothers is an intimate portrait of a group of marginalised men who meet once a week as part of the Men's Ensemble theatre troupe. Led by their director they embark on a year long journey to create a theatrical love letter to the most important woman in their lives, their mother.

What unfolds is a poignant and intimate portrait of seven surprising individuals who reveal all with honesty, grace and a dose of irreverence. As they put their hearts on the line complications set in and not everyone makes it to opening night.

This observational documentary encourages audiences to leave views of disability at the door and through the eyes of the Men's Ensemble, experience what it is to be simply human.

13:20 Uhr

0h38min

A personal journey focusing in spectacular monuments that adorn many public places in the city where I was born and raised, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A sweeping view of the so called the Paris of South America, filmed during the day and at night. A homage to a place that has had the influence of Europe ( France, Italy and Spain most of all ) in the architecture and lifestyle of it's inhabitants. Narrated in Spanish with English subtitles and a soundtrack that includes classical music as well as tangos. A vivid story of an emigrant who now feels as a ghost in the Universe, for being viewed by others as a foreigner in her native land ( Argentina ) and outside of it as well. A story about love and adoration for one's own birthplace.

14:00 Uhr

1h20min

When old feelings return, a reunion of friends at a Swedish summerhouse is thrown into chaos, hurt and conflict.

15:20 Uhr

1h40min

Reclusive billionaire Carl Jorstad finds himself stripped of his influence after stealing a prize delicacy, the rare jellyfish known as 'La méduse rouge', from a masochistic brotherhood of ultra-rich business leaders. Even as bizarre cosmic phenomena threaten all of humanity, Carl treks into the wilderness in a single-minded quest for revenge against those who have wronged him.

Along the way, Carl carves a bloody trail through sadistic prison camp guards, small-town business entrepreneurs, and international assassins-for-hire, while matching wits with black marketeers, resurrected advertising middle managers, and the devout worshipers of a marine biologist-turned-priest. But as his surreal travels begin to take a toll on him, Carl finds himself increasingly unable to conduct business as usual.

17:00 Uhr

1h21min

'When a group of young people camping in the ruins of a medieval Turkish town play a party game called 'Murder in the Dark', they soon discover that someone is taking the game too far...'

Produced in an experimental shooting style, this murder-mystery features a cast of actors who were not allowed to see the script. The actors' choices interactively changed the shape of the story. They had to use clues to solve the mystery laid out before them by the filmmakers.

18:20 Uhr

0h22min

The short movie is set in Florence in the '70s and tells the story of Sonia from age 11 to adulthood. The spectator gets in touch with the feelings of an entire generation through Sonia's life. That historical and political period in Italy is marked by terrorism and the movie describes the generational conflict of people at that time. Following Utopian ideals, some Italian young people renounced their backgrounds and behaved violently. In the film, this behavior is evoked as Sonia's emotional journey. Due to her actions, she lived a long period of detention, during which time she constructively reviewed her past.

18:40 Uhr

0h29min

Krystal and Paulina are two Muxes, effeminate in the Zapotec language, from the small town of Union Hidalgo in Oaxaca, Mexico. They're in social terms, transvestites, but in their own personal reality, they're women trapped in bodies of men. Through a lyrical and contemplative narrative, we witness their everyday lives and their unfiltered intimacy. The sounds, colors and textures of their surroundings tell us their stories.

19:10 Uhr

0h27min

Hanke Van Panke is a washed up Dutch TV reporter on a mission to expose sleazy foreigners living in exotic Wighland. With his sidekick Professor Tako Yaki, he goes to a resort town to investigate and interview Commander Quoits, a renegade American soldier who is beloved by locals for his ability to permanently disappear bad expats. Quoits and his wife also run a hamburger stand. Hanke's jealous friends, Bruce and Mungo follow them to try and sabotage the interview. All hell breaks loose ...

19:40 Uhr

0h20min

The fragments of memories from the poem enter through the window. What makes us exist in this world? There are organic relationships between several subjects. One affects another and becomes part of it. That part of another can be whole of one. The film contemplates on the boundary between the essences of several subjects. When a subject is faced with another, a boundary is created due to its unique form. It creates the boundary of the world. The internal and external state holds comprehensive ideal correlation according to the ambiguous relationship between the people, objects, and the space. The structure of the film also suggests this relationship by mixing several media like collage.

20:00 Uhr

0h15min

Love at First Sight the multi-award-winning short film, is the heart-warming story of a lonely young man’s increasingly creative attempts to attract the attention of the girl of his dreams. A gentle film of hope and optimism. The story is told without dialogue, subtitles or dialogue caption cards. It is free from all forms of written and spoken language. Mark Playne wrote and directed the film using three styles of direction with the cast. Trained actors ‘playing to script’ – first timers from the street playing themselves using a directing technique of ‘reaction to action’ – ’hidden camera’ and ‘fly on the wall’ documentary shots of people and animals being themselves going about their daily business in the town.

20:00 Uhr - Zuschauerauswahl

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Kyle Peoples ('Lukas Haas') never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s - stuck in a dead end job, engaged to a more successful lover, and saddled with a family that doesn't get him. When an innocent night of partying leads to a new family of friends, Kyle sees an opportunity to escape from his reality. But Kyle's new friendship with Maia (Necar Zadegan) and Dusty (Blake Berris), and the trio's love of crystal meth eventually cost Kyle his job, his lover, his family and his home. Kyle's escape becomes a trap, and the party is killing him, physically and psychologically. When he finally bottoms out, no longer the kid his father once boasted of, Kyle must choose: life or meth.

Best friends Sam and Mike go out on a bender after Mike's long-time girlfriend Judy leaves him, for good this time. Meanwhile, Sam looks back on his own relationship, with the beautiful singer-songwriter Maria, and realizes how his actions may have been pushing her away. The Hedgehog Dilemma is a naturalistic, improvised film about communication, and the tragic inability of most humans to effectively connect with another person on a deeper, emotional level. Through Sam and Mike's relationships, we come to understand a bit about being young in the city, and the isolation faced by Generation Y.

ZACK AND ADDIE explores the possible root causes of an internationally notorious 2006 French Quarter murder-suicide that involved dismemberment, beheading, and the cooking of human remains. The documentary addresses issues including the impact of Iraq and Bosnian military experience; post Hurricane Katrina P.T.S.D closeted homosexuality in the military; drug / alcohol abuse; the disappearing safety net reflected by an absence of psychiatric services in crisis; sexual abuse of children; and the role and responsibility of the media during tragedy and disaster. In exploring this confounding, mysterious crime, this film raises as many questions as it answers.

An ode to memory: Couples affected by a partner's recent diagnosis of Early Alzheimer's come to terms with their changing roles. Each couple has a different approach to the disease and to their perception of the disease. Caregivers express what it is like to be interrupted constantly, the responsibilities that lie ahead. Alzheimer patients express what it is like to have Alzheimer's in its early stages and the changes they note with their daily functions. This film is about the process of discovering that a partner has Alzheimer’s and then dealing with the aftermath. The topics, and subsequent chapters, address the following: diagnosis, challenges, and the stigma of Alzheimer’s, clinical trials, and adjusting to the inevitable. Linking the different topics are poetic interludes which evoke memory itself and force the viewer to string together the thoughts and images which appear and then disappear. The images, which come from Super 8 footage, are evocative of memory, while the text addresses the language that moves in and out of the recesses of the mind of the Alzheimer patient. This is a film of sadness, loss, nostalgia, discovery, and hope. It brings to light both the dark and light sides of Alzheimer's disease from the perspective of the patients as well as the caregivers and it offers a little insight, as we head into this epidemic of the future.

The film 'Heroes for a Semester' tells the story of the heroic work of a couple of students from the North Western University of Chicago to free an innocently convicted person - and the incredible consequences of having a legal system, that puts people in jail, who don't belong there.

Marcus is charged for murder and sent to prison for 46 years. He has only one chance left to get out. This is his last appeal. The students are trying to find evidence for Marcus' innocence. The search is frustrating and dangerous.

The film documents injustice and the greatness and abysmal depths of human beings in the course of the criminal investigations in an actual case.

Amanda Sage was a dissident whose beliefs and ideas retain the power to disturb a long established mode of living. A restless public is re-awakening long after her death fueled by the recordings of her anti-government speeches. Jeremy's new job entails rewriting her words and her visual image; nullifying and softening the impact of her heartfelt rhetoric. While working to comprehend her lectures, to effectively alter them, he chooses a taboo course of action; he dumps her stored memory into an android body made in her likeness. This brings him dangerously close to her and her message.

Rainer experiences his live as a chain of abasements. Life looked good in 1989. He had a finished education, work in sight and a girl friend in the wake, but than his sketch out way is suddenly interrupted by the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since than he is stucked in his hometown Thuringia, tends his bedridden mother sacrificially and lives off social support or minimum wage jobs. The frustration of the abasements and failures gathers within him. Drop by drop. He feels that the world can only be put in order with a fire signal and decides to build a bomb to set an example. He stows it in the bag of his moped on which he delivers pizza for the local Mc-doner-pizza-shop. He hits the road through several cites on his way to Berlin until he reaches the capital. Rainer meets his own history on this trip. Finally he arrives at Berlin and finds himself in a flat-sharing community. He falls in love with a young women, in who he sees all he has ever searched for: an ordered Life! Originally from the province, she is down-to-earth and lives a structured life. Rainer gives up his plan and begins to build up a middle class future for both of them. But as a enormous misunderstanding takes place, he gets thrown off the track again. He primes the bomb and drives it to the Brandenburg Gate, were the annual New Year's Eve party is just starting...

Alex wants to find the father he has never known. He kidnaps police officers for interrogation.

A film about the fragile relationship between a father and son. The two dialog about their troubled past and confront their own personal dilemma's about one another. Marty Gleason, who was forced out in his youth, breaks into his fathers home in a drunken stammer. The father, amused by his son's desperation and with an intense desire to resolve things definitively, allows Marty to speak his mind.

Creamen, taken from the Spanish word crimen, meaning “crime“, is a colorful, symbolic and micro-cosmic story about the global warming crisis, which brings together an unlikely group of abstract, anthropomorphic characters who unexpectedly are forced to confront the challenge of a potentially devastating future together.In this story, shown to us through the remarkable visual landscape of stop-motion animation technique, our favorite ice cream flavors, Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate Chip, and Banana, are transformed into irreverent personalities from different nations and regions of the world, each of which holding closely to their views on this most urgent of environmental crisis.

With personalities that indeed reflect the best…or not so best…in all of us, irreverent Russian curmudgeon “Mr. Popivanov” along with the delicate French debutante “Sophie”, “Mr. Chip” the American who lives next door; and, finally, “Carlitos” from the Dominican Republic (a gentleman quite interested in global warming of a different sort), all make us laugh even as we contemplate their inability to find common ground in the midst of the world’s most vexing global problem.

A blind woman is crucified by the pain of the world. An Irish war correspondent returns from the front, and is exiled in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. A strange man falls through a window. Memories explode ...

A visual sensational experience of a woman's crucifixion by the pain of the world through time.Inspired by Nietzsche's mental collapse in 1889 after he saw a horse being whipped in the street ... And the thousands of abandoned horses in Ireland after the financial meltdown in 2008. HORSE is the story of a woman - a war correspondent - suffering from the neurological condition - Mirror Touch Synaesthesia - feeling others' pain in visions, sounds and colours. An experiment with the cinematic expression of consciousness, memory and emotion, inspired by principles of geometric symmetry (like Luis Buñuel's, UN CHIEN ANDALOU - 1929, which directly inspired Lars von Trier's NOCTURNE - 1980).